What are the customs and culture of the Buyei people?

Buyi customs: 1, February 2, the main sacrifice "land god", blessing the whole village peace, kill chickens to honor the ancestors, eat two colors (white, black) sticky rice. 2, June 6, sacrifices to the god of the field, the god of the land and the god of the mountain, after the sacrifice of the blood of chickens stained with various colors of paper flags, or made into a bird shape inserted into the field. Buyei culture: 1. Architecture, Buyei dwellings have several kinds of buildings, half-floor houses and bungalows. Half-floor houses are usually built in a pattern where the back half is a bungalow and the front half is a building, or the left half is a bungalow and the right half is a building.

2, diet: the Buyi people to rice as the main food, and eat corn, wheat, red tares, buckwheat and so on. Buyi especially like glutinous food, and there are a variety of production methods, such as made into patties, round sugar poi, ear block poi, pillow dumplings and triangular dumplings. During festivals, they must eat glutinous rice and present it to their friends and relatives. The festivals also like to eat flowers and leaves juice dyed with various colors of "glutinous rice".

3, clothing: the Buyei people dress in green, blue, white and other colors. Buyi women pay attention to the headdress, before marriage, the head plate hair braid, wearing embroidered headscarf; after marriage must be changed to use bamboo shoot shells for "skeleton" of the specialized ornaments, called "more test", meaning into the family.

4. Family: The Buyei family is patriarchal. The head of the family has the power to dominate the family economy and command the members. All male elders are respected, and those who are upright are even more prestigious. Disputes within the tribe are mediated on their own, without the need to appeal to the authorities. The status of women is lower than that of men. Widows can inherit property, but not if they remarry.